NEW: Lawmakers unwilling to battle Trump directly have been quietly hopeful the courts would resolve President Trump's bid to commandeer their power of the purse.
It hasn't happened, and now the hour of reckoning has arrived.
w/ Jen Scholtes
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If we don’t have a constitution the states can stop paying into the federal pot.
Where does congress get the money anyway? lol
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Impoundment & rescissions are not constitutional. Mentioned nowhere in the Constitution. There's no law that governs them & they've rarely been used. Now Donald is making it a central lever of his rule. youtu.be/jAcj_XSHJYc
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They will own the coming recession.
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I expect them to remain TrumpCucks.
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They are all spineless.
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"Lawmakers have been waiting all year for the Supreme Court to save them"
Bullshit, Politico. DEMOCRATS have been waiting all year. This GOP congress is an integral PART of this fascist regime, and could have stopped ALL of this, at ANY time.
Don't try and paint them as the poor victims here.
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“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” Martin Luther King
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Crappy strategy
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They’ve been afraid to go on record voting to give the President what he wants when they know it’s something their voters don’t want, so they’ve been more than willing to abdicate their responsibilities
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We elected cowards who are unwilling or unable to stand up for the constitution.
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The GOP needs to act themselves they work for us not the White House!
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Yep
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Given what we have seen at GOP town halls…….GOP needs to worry about voters more than Trump
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Chicken shits
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The Trump Court was hired because they believe in a strong Presidency. This pretty much disqualified them as SCOTUS justices. We are supposed to be a country of checks and balances.
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The cowardice of so many Americans is stunning. From ordinary citizens to giants of industry-a bunch of wusses.
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They are all Susan Collin’s ferchrissakes. Every one of them. They can all fuck off
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I believe this is why we have ships near Venezuela - to start a war.
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Spineless cowards = GOP
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"....they’re violating their oath of office through the Constitution #STAND-UP #Grow-a-spine #Defend-the-Constitution -
Any "lawmaker" who doesn't have the courage to do the job of upholding the Constitution needs to be removed.
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Fucking cowards that don’t represent their people. Every one of their constituents should be calling every day railing their representatives but they won’t. It was their votes that put us here and they’re too proud. They’re scum.
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That’s the same bet Mitch the bitch McConnell made.. now look where we are
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"Writhing" is not in USA voter's best interests.
Prince heavily involved in Myanmar MIL, who overthrew Democratically-elected admin. eve of swearing in. Millions killed.
Prince now part of Trump's MIL in US now. So, Congress must do more than writhing. wearestillunited.substack.com/p/project-20...
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They definitely should be replaced We need stronger people in Congress not opportunists& grift finders etc. Partly why term limits are so very important, people get complacent and only want to work for themselves.. Or care about themselves.. lose sight of their job requirements,objectives & morals
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Spineless cowards are spineless cowards
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Quietly hopeful: that’s not how you preserve the republic and fight off an unconstitutional insurrectionist from wrecking your country
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Lawmakers are either going to confront Trump or knuckle under to the tyrant to protect their jobs..
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Republicans have done this since Mitch decided not to impeach. They want to have their cake and eat it too: leave it to courts to reign him in without taking the political hit for doing it themselves.
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LFG republicans, you feckless fucks ✊🏽
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this should be a huge no shit sherlock moment
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Pussies
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I hope this country remembers the cowardice of republican lawmakers. We can’t forget this and we can’t forgive it.
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It's my strong belief that SCOTUS intends to kick these cans down the road until it is too late, rather than hold obvious and deliberate illegality to account. It's equally clear that if this was a Democratic President they would have ruled long ago.
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Disappointing article; you only discuss the power (and lack of action) that Republican lawmakers have at the very end of the article, while the headline, first few paragraphs, and even this post frame it as lawmakers writ large who are sitting on their hands. More discussion of GOP agency needed.
